From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4449301: * etc/NEWS: Improve documentation of 'package-initialize'.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:58:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=uVvRwB8gnHgZJ0uxJfLNuQ-Bye3Gs82WK+2X97CaEzw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsgmtcddu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> I'm not sure if there's much harm in keeping it as a defcustom, so I'll
> let someone else decide whether we should change it. But if we do want
> to change it, the patch looks OK to me in this respect.
OK, I must have misunderstood you above and believed you agreed that
it should be changed into a defvar.
Thinking a bit more about this, maybe we should add some general
machinery to specify that particular variables gets placed in the
early init file by default? It could be a new property ':early-init
t', where Emacs inserts these particular variables into the early init
file instead of the init file. Perhaps we could also add a new
variable 'custom-file-early' analogous to 'custom-file'. Would that
make sense?
> > I've also added documentation to package-load-list and
> > package-user-dir to explain the above quirks.
>
> But this doesn't mention the fact that it still works if they use
> `package-quickstart`.
Please expect a new patch once I find the time to work on it.
> > Perhaps it would make sense to create a new node "initialization of
> > packages" which could describe all this.
>
> Yes. Maybe it should be a bit more general and include discussion of
> customize settings. IOW it could talk about dependencies and ordering
> between package.el, custom.el, and "manual Elisp settings".
Agreed, to make it more general was my thinking too. I'll get to work
on such a section, which I'll add in packages.texi and name
"Initialization of Packages".
> > 2. Should package-quickstart have a :set attribute with a value of
> > 'package-quickstart-refresh?
>
> I don't think so: the refresh should happen when the set of
> installed/activated packages changes, whereas what you suggest would
> cause a refresh to happen at every Emacs startup.
>
> But I guess it does deserve a :set function, which should take care to
> run `package-quickstart-refresh` if there's no quickstart file yet, or
> to delete the quickstart file when set to nil (in both cases it should
> maybe prompt the user before actually doing it?).
Makes sense. I could probably work on that too, if no one beats me to
it. I haven't thought about the prompting, so I don't have an opinion
about that yet.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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2019-10-22 12:28 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 4449301: * etc/NEWS: Improve documentation of 'package-initialize' Stefan Monnier
2019-10-23 12:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-23 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-02 4:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-11 16:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-12 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-18 14:58 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-14 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-02 3:34 ` Stefan Kangas
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